tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.comments2023-09-22T06:15:59.092-03:00All life is familyMichael Marshall http://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-22451288868969959072013-12-25T10:19:10.950-04:002013-12-25T10:19:10.950-04:00No , "MUNROs" are not named after Alice ...No , "MUNROs" are not named after Alice our Nobel winner - but after George Munro .19th century GB (General Benefactor) of Dalhousie University, whose donated money earned from his "story papers" lifted the university from the depths of obscurity and or bankruptcy and merger.<br />His much despised ( by the literary elite - those who today worship Alice) story papers led to a marked democratization of literature.<br />Now that's MY cuppa tea !!!<br />michael marshallhttp://alllifeisfamily.blogspot.ca/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-79135529122734697302013-11-10T12:52:09.847-04:002013-11-10T12:52:09.847-04:00"Agape Penicillin : Henry Dawson's Manhat..."Agape Penicillin : Henry Dawson's Manhattan Project"<br /><br />is even shorter - I like !Michael Marshall https://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-84327738147875881802013-11-10T10:56:32.304-04:002013-11-10T10:56:32.304-04:00Another variant I like:
"Agape's Manhatt...Another variant I like:<br /><br />"Agape's Manhattan Project :<br />God only knows why Henry Dawson did what he did"Michael Marshall https://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-7613379757155265382013-11-10T08:11:00.921-04:002013-11-10T08:11:00.921-04:00And there are just 3 words in the title and 16 in ...And there are just 3 words in the title and 16 in the sub-title. <br />Not exactly terse, but getting there !Michael Marshall https://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-23988109507511762742013-11-10T07:58:16.725-04:002013-11-10T07:58:16.725-04:00The ten billion of us "are" is a problem...The ten billion of us "are" is a problem (if I had a PhD and tenure, it be problematic).<br /><br />My claim is actually that 10 billion, since 1940, have had improved lives thanks to Dawson's efforts - but that about 3 billion of us has since passed on.Michael Marshall https://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-36762822386320066122013-11-10T07:45:43.949-04:002013-11-10T07:45:43.949-04:00"Agape's Manhattan Project"
Ten bill..."Agape's Manhattan Project"<br />Ten billion of us are better off, because a dying Manhattan doctor put saving ten others above his own life<br /><br />OR<br /><br />"Agape's Manhattan Project"<br />Why ten billion of us are better off because a dying Manhattan doctor put saving ten others above his own lifeMichael Marshall https://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-8708897485387346712013-11-10T06:40:13.345-04:002013-11-10T06:40:13.345-04:00I should hasten to add that this looks like it was...I should hasten to add that this looks like it was deliberately stocked with SEO keywords to direct religious readers towards it, but that wasn't the case.<br /><br />As my many previous attempts on this blog make clear, I stumbled very slowly to this phrase to describe Dawson and his project.<br />Still - it is loaded, deliberately or not , with religious keywords.<br />Agape, lapsed, Calvinist, catholic, mission, humanity .....Michael Marshall https://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-66446164796267710022013-11-09T19:08:37.781-04:002013-11-09T19:08:37.781-04:00I kinda like the first one in the post's text ...I kinda like the first one in the post's text as it is relatively short but works (together with the book title) as a complete elevator pitch with out me being there !Michael Marshall https://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-10409867073543086432013-05-15T11:45:34.451-03:002013-05-15T11:45:34.451-03:00Personally, whenever I see today's HS science ...Personally, whenever I see today's HS science teachers still trotting out Newton Dalton and Darwin and then giving a last minute, token, nod to Quantum science I wonder why they have a quantum GPS in all their cars, if Newton is really so great.<br><br>Good science ? Or just bad acid ?Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-39826703672689988052013-05-05T18:03:10.304-03:002013-05-05T18:03:10.304-03:00If one can make a successful fictional movie about...If one can make a successful fictional movie about the NO side in a referendum in Chile - why not ?Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-5606517979838558672013-05-02T16:31:51.265-03:002013-05-02T16:31:51.265-03:00A person doesn't have to search very hard to f...A person doesn't have to search very hard to find atheists who are repulsed by grace, mercy and humility. Forgiveness gives them the willies and the love of enemies is seen as sheer madness. Too bad. The world simply can't do without these things. <br><br>On the other hand, a person doesn't have to search very hard to find Christians who purport to adore these characteristics but pretty much ignore them in their daily lives. <br><br>Ah me, humanity is such a drag.Thesauroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13305052511095551483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-65120162040049067692013-03-27T06:32:55.748-03:002013-03-27T06:32:55.748-03:00I really wish I hadn’t seen this as I really want ...I really wish I hadn’t seen this as I really want one <a href="http://www.lovelonglong.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Luxury Dog Collar</strong></a>, <a href="http://www.lovelonglong.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Small Dog Collars</strong></a> now!Iva Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04755131434797050742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-15117316454727072662013-02-20T10:44:44.740-04:002013-02-20T10:44:44.740-04:00Anthrax has been happily killing animals and human...Anthrax has been happily killing animals and humans for a long long time without any help from Science.<br><br>But a lot of the world's best scientists have struggled for 75 years to "weaponize" it without an clear signs of success: we are still in danger than the anthrax spreads back to the side that launched it.<br><br>Just as the Canadians failed to successfully "weaponize" the chlorine gas they tried to send over to the German side at Vimy : the winds changed it it ended up only killing Canadians !<br><br>A success weapon that your side invents has to help your side more than it helps the other side.<br><br>The hollow charge was invented by a big nation, America, but generally it has helped its tiny opponents (as used in IEDs) more than it has helped America.<br><br>The richer Allied medical forces did not want penicillin to help the poorer Axis medical forces more than it helped them, so they tried very hard to keep it a secret --- a frequent feature of weaponizing something.<br><br>Another way they weaponized penicillin was to try to make it a pure dry stable lightweight powder like sulfa powder, that could be just poured into a fresh war wound on the combat lines at the battle raged without need of skilled doctors giving IVs with help of refrigerated penicillin.<br><br>Later on , the dumb simple idea of ice lined plywood iceboxes did allow penicillin and whole blood to save lives on the front lines - no need for compilcated and nearly useless dried blood and dried penicillin powder !<br><br><br><br>Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-39209060457724692002013-02-20T10:24:24.637-04:002013-02-20T10:24:24.637-04:00What do you mean by weaponized penicillin?What do you mean by weaponized penicillin?evergreen, rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774178058064966663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-47265351926310264692013-01-31T20:28:31.099-04:002013-01-31T20:28:31.099-04:00Its a myth that Churchill saved Fleming from drown...Its a myth that Churchill saved Fleming from drowning<br>as a child.evergreen, rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05774178058064966663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-72618827619670587752013-01-31T20:25:35.372-04:002013-01-31T20:25:35.372-04:00Thank you "Evergreen Nova Scotia" for yo...Thank you "Evergreen Nova Scotia" for your point about Churchill never saved Fleming from drowning as a kid.Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-25387295547352345692012-10-28T13:46:25.509-03:002012-10-28T13:46:25.509-03:00Thanks for your great information, the contents ar...Thanks for your great information, the contents are quiet interesting.I will be waiting for your next post.<br><a href="www.sire-search.com" rel="nofollow">Food Recruitment</a><br>V. K. Sinhahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06181184742206228172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-81265475024759777112012-10-04T07:47:20.188-03:002012-10-04T07:47:20.188-03:00I doubt whether Nancy Cartwright is half as certai...I doubt whether Nancy Cartwright is half as certain as you that natural "laws" exist everywhere and for all time.<br><br>Some people (natural philosophers aka physicists, mostly) hope they do - but hope isn't certainty.<br><br>If a science 'law' is working and useful under certain conditions, great I will use it under those conditions--- but I don't worship it as a tenet of theology.<br><br>Practical physics I love - physics as theology I don't.Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-92053050763705234892012-09-08T10:43:53.589-03:002012-09-08T10:43:53.589-03:00Dear Lucy "J" and EOR :Oh POOH ! I wish ...Dear Lucy "J" and EOR :<br><br>Oh POOH ! <br><br>I wish I had seen the connection: I thought "..e..or.." was something Jim would say on the Vicar of Dibbley.....<br><br>Loved your blog post on the (non) attention played to distant floods that kill non-angry/ non-white guys.....Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-58688798445018153152012-09-08T05:17:59.986-03:002012-09-08T05:17:59.986-03:00The pithy donkey does it again. Bravo EoR!The pithy donkey does it again. Bravo EoR!Lucy Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08489954518473019568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-46814050149147525562012-09-06T08:19:19.153-03:002012-09-06T08:19:19.153-03:00Weird to be commenting on my own blog post ---- bu...Weird to be commenting on my own blog post ---- but the person complaining won't comment themselves.<br><br> Basically they complained that the last post involved a political party -- in a blog supposed to be devoted to science - broadly defined.<br><br>They felt the PQ story went beyond that broad limit.<br><br>I can only repeat that I only write about "political" science. <br><br>(But then I also feel - somewhat paradoxically) that ALL science is political....)Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-73093832226264609982012-08-31T09:15:42.168-03:002012-08-31T09:15:42.168-03:00I agree - we can slow the rise in the ocean caused...<br>I agree - we can slow the rise in the ocean caused by our own behavior -because we can (and did) CAUSE a similar rise in the ocean, by our own behavior.<br><br>The rise we already caused does not go away , but we slow and finally stop new increases.<br><br>I , too, doubt that Obama could STOP a rise in the ocean .<br><br>Like you , I do not mentally conflate slow with stop....Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-63736658932058926262012-08-31T09:07:22.226-03:002012-08-31T09:07:22.226-03:00"rather than slow the rise of the ocean as Ob..."rather than slow the rise of the ocean as Obama promises to do."<br><br>Obama promised that, and you beleived it? I think its time you had a talk wih a professional geologist about ocean rise.<br><br>Hers' what Wikipedia says about ocean rise "Since the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, sea level has risen by more than 120 m (averaging 6 mm/yr) as a result of melting of major ice sheets. A rapid rise took place between 15,000 and 6,000 years ago at an average rate of 10 mm/yr which accounted for 90 m of the rise.."<br><br>So the ocean rises an average 60cm per century for the past 20k years. And Obama has promised to slow that down. And you beleived him, wow.<br><br>He must be a god, is he? Lol!<br><br>klemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-37618540515296330182012-08-31T07:54:19.875-03:002012-08-31T07:54:19.875-03:00I think, like most elected politicians, what they ...I think, like most elected politicians, what they will actually do when elected, is do what they promised but in a subdued, cut-down fashion.<br><br>Romney's speech, written by Jack Benny , promises <br>to hand over his life rather than his money.<br><br>His pledge was to put four cars in two car garages and two chickens in pots meant for one - rather than slow the rise of the ocean as Obama promises to do.<br><br>The GOP loved this idea.<br><br>I just hope all those cars have water wings.......!Michael Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11630172571231508804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1963095822377077029.post-70701469157239425832012-08-30T17:14:08.418-03:002012-08-30T17:14:08.418-03:00Um, so what will you say if the Romney/Ryan team w...Um, so what will you say if the Romney/Ryan team wins?<br><br>Based on the 'balanced' way CNN has been reporting at this week’s RNC, I'd say CNN is deeply worried that their hero, Osama bin Obama, is going to lose.<br><br>Can't wait to see it happen.<br><br>cheers<br><br>klemAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com